Gov. Bill Haslam, right, with Mayor Karl Dean, in August announced his Tennessee Promise plan to provide free community college tuition to high school seniors starting in 2015.

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Nancy Eisenbrandt

Gov. Bill Haslam's Tennessee Promise proposal to provide free community college tuition to high school seniors beginning with the 2015 graduating class demonstrates his commitment to building an educated workforce. As the governor told The New York Times, "College is not for everybody, but it has to be for a lot more people than it's been in the past if we're going to have a competitive workforce."

Tennessee Promise will go a long way toward reaching the governor's Drive to 55 initiative, which seeks to boost the number of college degree or certificate holders from the current 32 percent to 55 ...